October 21, 2006- The Separation

   One of the reasons that the Bush Administration considered the acts of September 11th, 2001 as a declaration of war against the USA was that they wanted to keep this thing out of the legal realm entirely. They felt that the legal system could not possibly handle something of this magnitude because it had been far too co-opted and watered down and such by various factions within it. You always hear the American Pigs going on about how the criminal justice system does not adequately punish criminals because it gives them just too many ways out of things and that the criminals exploit those loopholes and get away with far too much. The other side of that is that is part of the price that America has to pay for having a legal system like it does where the accused have chances to prove the charges against them unfounded. However, such a system does let guilty people go free, the OJ Simpson affair in the 1990's proved that, and once America was attached in 2001, the Administration just did not want to even risk having those that were behind this slide away on technicalities like OJ did, so they said that it was an act of war and went about things accordingly. In a war situation, most of the rights and such that people have in any legal system, let alone America's, are nowhere to be seen, and that is how the Administration chose to go after the perpetrators. They rounded their lackeys and stooges up and shipped many of them off to places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they have sat for as long a five years in many cases without ever being charged with anything. Under war rules, that is acceptable, because just taking up arms against America and participating in the war is a war crime, and that's what these guys did, whether they were coerced or not is another matter, but they actively participated in war against the USA and got busted for that. What the Administration wanted to do with these cats is to sert up a separate system of justice for them, a military tribunal to you and me squire. They were going to have secret trials where the defendants had limited rights and representation and use those trials to decide just what they wanted to do with them. This decision was made for a few reasons. First off, the Administration remembered the case of General Manuel Noriega, the anit-US dude that used to run Panama until December,  1989 when the Americans came in and removed him, and arrested him on charges of essentially being a drug dealer and smuggler. He was taken to the US and put in prison to await trial, and ther ehe sat for years with nothing going on, and when he did get his trial, he turned it into a political statement by wearing his Panamanian General's uniform and saying that he was a POW and such. He was found guilty of  course, but the entire spectacle was kind of an embarrassment for America, and since the things that occurred in 2001 were so much  more serious than what Noriega allegedly  did, Washington did not want a spectacle surrounding this like they had with Noriega, so they wanted to do everything in secret and get it done that way,

   However, there were many in America that cried foul over that in a big way. They said that it was not fair to treat these poor Muslim boys that way, even if they did take up arms in a war, that they deserved justice and had rights as well. You would think that no one in America would want to actively help dudes that were busted as enemy combatants against America, but th elure of money and fame has proven to be too great to resist for the American legal community, and many of its members in good standing have volunteered to help these poor POWs out. They have been fighting and haranguing Washington over this issue for like five years now, besically insisting that this issue has toi be handled as a legal matter, not a war one. These guys have twisted and bent the meanings of the American legal code and made it seem as if Washington is holding these dude illegally. yes, it is bad to hold people without charging them with anything, but no matter how much you hate the war, Washington does have a right to run it as they see fit, but these fucking lawyers have been fighting them on that even harder than the Muslim boys that they bust in the theater of war. The pictures and such of the torture tactics that some of the American troops have used against these POWs has strengthened the cry for their rights even more. Even if they are enemy POWs, the average American does not want to see them naked and covered in shit or being shocked with soime rudimentary torture device, because that makes America look bad. People from all over the world freaked out over that shit, and America took quite a lot of heat over that. What happened at home was that people started listening to these lawyers that said that they were trying to help the detainees whern they were only trying to help their own bank accounts, and believed them when they said that this matter had to be handled through legal channels, look what happens if it is not, and people like Lynndie England made it real hard for Washington to defend much of what was seen, and the lawyers gained massive steam and support for their cause. The American people now saw these guys as poor victims of an overzealous Administration and that they needed rights just like anyone else, and they were being deprived of them, and that was not fair. So the support for not allowing the Administration to have its secret military tribunals and make them try these cases in the legal system grew and grew. The matter got its way into the American legal system and was bounced around the Federal court system until it finally got all the way to the top in the Supreme Court of the USA. Whatever the Supreme Court ruled on the matter was going to be final, and both sides waited anxiously for the verdict. When that verdict finally came down, it came down against the Administration, in that it was ruled that they could not try these people in secret military tribunals, but that they had to do it withing the framework of the American legal system. That made the lawyers jubilant and the Administration upset, and they knew that it was back to the drawing board for them.

   So they tinkered around with things for a while, and they came up with a plan that was the best of both worlds as far as they were concerned. What they came up with was a plan to suspend the rights of habeus corpus for these dudes deemed enemy combatants so that they did not have as many rights as the average American criminal defendant. They felt that they had to do this because as soon as the Supreme Court ruled against the tribunals, the lawsuits and complaints and desperate attempts to find any loopholes started as the lawyers for the accused started the legal twisting that they use to exonerate their clients and fuck over the government. That dude Jose Padilla filed a suit saying that while he was held as an enemy combatant, that he was given shit like LSD and PCP against his will (like hell it was against his will and he didn't like it), and other detainees had their lawyers filing protests and complaints about this and that, so the Administration tried to take care of that by signing this new law concerning habeus corpus. Well, that has started a firestorm like non e other, as many across America have been freaking out non-stop over this shit for days now. They are saying things like this is the end of the American republic, because this measure guts everything that America is about and replaces it with arbitrary arrests and incarcerations and unfair trials and the whole ball of wax. People like Keith Olberman are saying that anyone that gets busted for anything in America can now be drwan into this, all that has to be done is to be declared an enemy combatant, and since there is no codified definition as to what that is exactly, so the Pigs can decide that you are one of these no matter what they bust you for, and then you go into this special section of the criminal justice system where you are denied your rights by and large, and that the real plan behind this is to use it in virtually any  criminal case in America so that the people no longer have any rights and the government is free to imprison people at will for as long as they see fit. Draconian visions of people beging arrested for jaywalking, littering, swearing on Sunday and being declared enemy combatants and sent to the special system and locked up for decades on end, their lives ruined, the American people living in abject fear of their own government have been everywhere this week. That's beacuse something as major as this was never put in these terms, but had been done by Presidents in times of war before, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson are a couple of examples of Presidents that went and tightened up the American legal system during a war, but they never went after the habeus corpus thing, because that is essentially the centerpiece of every Western government's framework ever since it was first crafted in England in 1215. Even if they essentially fucked with that principle, no one ever came right out and said so, but this Administration said that they were tinkering with that principle directly for the first time in 791 years. This was why so many flew off the handle and said the things that they did, because they were certain that this was the beginning of the end for America, that now everyone was in grave danger from the power of their own government. Doom and gloom are being dispensed everywhere, but is it really that mkuch of a terrible thing?

   The reality of it all is that the only reason that this shit is now in the American legal system at all is because it was decreed by the Supreme Court. The Administration did everything that it could to keep these two things seperate, and this is exactly why. The stakes on this one are the highest that they have ever been, and Washington does not want any fancy lawyer bullshit twisting things so that one of these guys goes free like OJ Simpson did simply because his lawyer put oin a compelling show for the world and they did not want any of that again in these cases. However, they were foced to by the Court, so they did what they felt that they had to do, and that was modify some things in the legal code so that they could retain the advantage thatr they feel they need in these cases. They did not want to have to modify the American legal system, they were forced to. There was no need to modify it to prosecute criminal cases, that sysyem is so fucking skewered towards the government that they have a huge advantage as it is, and do not need any more. If they tighten things up, that means more paperwork and bureauacracy and more hassle and cost for them, so they don't want that when there's no need for it. However, if you start to throw these POW cases in there, then they have to shift things simply because you have brought war into the system, and the rules of engagement in war are different than those in criminal courts. They do not want to bust some dude drinking beer on a public way and throw him to that  special part of the system, but they have no choice except to throw the POWS into that category. If you insist that the POWs get mixed with the ordinary criminals, then things have to be changed because you have brought the war into it. That is why they are so insistent on keeping war issues and criminal issues separate because they know that doing otherwise brings the war into the daily lives of the ordinary people, and that's exactly what they said that they started this war to protect us from. Now these fame seeking lawyers that jumped on the stupid shit that Lynndie England and those other idiots did to those Iraqi POWs have forced the hand of the government  and gotten an essential part of the legal system altered for the firsat time in centuries. They did this not out of concern for poor Muslims, but for rich lawyers, basically themselves, and now they scream and cry about how the American system shall never be the same. It is all their fucking fault, because they are the ones that do not give a fuck about things like habeus corpus, all they care about is money, and they altered the system, not the Administration. They know that too, and they say that Washington are the ones that really did it, and the people believe them, just like they believed that Johny Cochran dude in OJ's trail in 1995. These fuckers are willing to sell out the American system for money, and then they have the audacity to say that the government is doing it for the sake of power. It is them that are on the power trip, not the government here, they want the government's power, and not for the forces of good either. If they let Washington  keep the war out of the American legal system, these new laws will never be used. If they dont, and they surely won't, they will be the ones that bring forced Draconian ways into American society, and they won't give a shit either, they'll be too busy living the luxurious life that all of this has gotten them.

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